What value is there in insulting somebody who is offering their opinion, which may prove helpful to some?
If you have a better idea or a rebuttal to my theory, argue it here. I'd honestly like to hear it (not being sarcastic). I'm only trying to help and get more info. That's why most of us are here.
I mean, that's possible, but there are so many giveaways in this video. His constant upper face/eye expressions are not normal compared to his normal speaking videos, his outline is too sharp, his face looks slightly disproportionate; There's so many uncanny valley slight differences that the whole video just triggers every "this is fake" sensor.
WTAF is the actual video of Putin supposed to be real or was it supposed to be a deepfake joke vid to start with? Please say the latter.
Skip to like 9:00 and just zoom in on his hair, near the part on the right. You can watch the part being regenerated every few hundred milliseconds.
If it is supposed to be real, the world is over. The video is so obviously a deepfake. That would mean Putin is gone. That would mean the war is being perpetuated without Putin even ostensibly being responsible for it. And that would mean it's so over that they don't even care about trying to make it look real anymore. Think of the real implications of this. This is no joke.
Never give up. Do the hard work it takes to get things in order just enough to take the next step toward something better. Let go of the past. Cling to the unknown in the future. No matter what you've lost, you can gain so much when you never give up. Don't beat off, cut out drugs and alcohol, don't ever regret, just move forward, find people you enjoy talking with and show them commensurate respect. Show respect to others and be sincere, in general; being snarky or sarcastic is often a ploy to shield yourself from being mocked, etc. Think of my comment that you replied to last week - I left myself open to that other user potentially being a troll, like you mentionef. I was willing to be sincere, regardless of whether the guy was real or just an idiot, etc. Be sincere in your life this way, and don't be afraid of being slapped by some random troll.
Direct link to the study for anyone who fucking hates bait-n-switch sign up pop ups:
This is a pretty good compilation of some of the more blatant NASA CGI examples. I hadn't previously seen the water droplet disappearing example. I remember seeing that actual video and thinking it was pretty convincing, didn't even occur to me to just slow the video down and look in his mouth :/
This is some nightmare shit. I read your post last week also. I hope this all turns out to be paranoid delusions on our parts, or something. If it's not, I hope the aftermath is less bad than The Road. I fear neither hope will be the case.
I looked it up; it's an index of 25 stocks, so that's the combined price. Just like the Dow 30 (DJI), except this index is designed to be representative of the markets as a whole.
I'm starting to be at least semi-convinced they are going to hold into their rate hikes for some time (at least through winter) and that they'll ignore layoffs, etc. for far too long, just like they did with the "transitory" inflation, because I think they want the crash. We basically skipped the last Shemetah or however that word is spelled (anyway, the 7 year cycle) with that little mini crash in 2015. I think this time could be for real, and long lasting. The thing that keeps making me think this, aside from FedEx today, is the fact that so many people keep expecting it to turn around.
BTW, I listen to this guy whenever the markets are acting crazy - he has good commentary:
Oh wow, I did not know TLT was this oversold. Tells you the market doesn't think the Fed will stop the interest hikes for some time. Of course, it's forward looking, so your March calls could pay off big when the jobless claims start rolling in over the winter.
Yeah that's true, just trying to figure out what the hell to put money in besides gold (I don't want to have too high of a percentage in metals). I figured these super low PE ratio manufacturing stocks that are going to be needed during war time, usually they have high dividends and lots of cash on hand, so they have room to pivot, etc.
Yeah, it is like playing with fire, but my thinking is that we're going to war or at the very least completely decoupling from Russia and China (over time), and I want Western steel to take back over the market for the West. I also only want to be in stocks with an ultra low P/E, ones that will fair OK in a protracted downturn (not based on market growth), just so that I'm not fully in cash, in case the Fed fucks around.
If you were totally out of real estate and wanted to get rid of some cash to hedge against the risk of some kind of monetary collapse, but you didn't want to put any more money into gold (or crypto), what do you think you would add to your portfolio?
It feels so strange living through all of this...